Patrick Cockburn

5/19/22 Patrick Cockburn on the Arrogance of War Hawks on All Sides

by Scott Horton | May 22, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Scott talks with Patrick Cockburn about Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Western response. Cockburn argues that, regardless of any media spin, the Russians are running into more trouble than they expected to in Ukraine. He chalks that up to hubris...

7/30/21 Patrick Cockburn: The ‘Forever War’ in Afghanistan is Far From Over

by Scott Horton | Aug 1, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott and Patrick Cockburn speculate about the future of Afghanistan as the United States ends its military involvement there. Cockburn reminds us that although the Taliban are making gains in parts of the country, they are far from universally popular, and the...

10/2/20 Patrick Cockburn on his Testimony in the Assange Extradition Hearing

by Scott Horton | Oct 3, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews the great Patrick Cockburn about his written testimony in Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Cockburn argued, as have many other witnesses for the defense, that Assange's activities with WikiLeaks amount to the very best kind of journalism: the...

Fool’s Errand Now 1/2 Price!

by Scott Horton | Mar 29, 2020 | Blog

So you're stuck at home and want to learn about the war in Afghanistan? Well, I've cut the price of my book Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan by half for ya. The Kindle version too. Daniel Ellsberg, Douglas Macgregor, Matthew Hoh, Daniel L. Davis,...

1/3/20 Patrick Cockburn on Qassem Soleimani and America’s Proxy War With Iran in Iraq

by Scott Horton | Jan 5, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Patrick Cockburn discusses the recent killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani at an airport in Baghdad. Cockburn is surprised by the boldness of the move, and thinks Iran will respond, though not necessarily in a dramatic or immediate way. More likely, he says,...

This Morning on Antiwar Radio: Patrick Cockburn

by Scott Horton | Jan 5, 2020 | Blog

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10/18/19 Patrick Cockburn on the Winding Down of the War in Syria

by Scott Horton | Oct 21, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Patrick Cockburn about the situation with the Kurds in Syria. Scott calls Syria a win-win-win-win: The Kurds have negotiated a deal with Assad that will give them some autonomy and protection from Turkey, Turkey gets a roughly 30-mile border buffer with...

9/27/19 Patrick Cockburn on the Changing Nature of Global Warfare

by Scott Horton | Sep 28, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Patrick Cockburn discusses the recent attacks on a Saudi oil facility, an American drone, and two Japanese tankers, all of which have been pinned to various degrees on Iran. It's unclear to what extent Iran actually was involved—it's always possible that this is a...

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Restricting Production

"At the bottom of the interventionist argument there is always the idea that the government or the state is an entity outside and above the social process of production, that it owns something which is not derived from taxing its subjects, and that it can spend this...

Ford Follies: The Carrier Grift That Just Keeps Giving

Stop building these things. Even the corporate/access defense media is starting to sound the alarm bells on the multi-billion carrier fiasco that is the USS Ford which is probably causing plenty of public relations professionals in the Navy to go apoplectic. As my...

“Capitalism” Is about Freedom, Not Capital

"Why 'capitalism'? Words have an unfortunate tendency to confuse. Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is about handing control of the economy from the top to billions of independent consumers, entrepreneurs and workers, and allowing them to make...

Ticonderoga Leaves the Fleet: The US Surface Navy Continues to Shrink

The US Navy surface fleet continues to shrink. And every surface hull commissioned after the Arleigh Burke class in 1991 has been a failure. The Chinese Navy exceeds the US Navy in total warships deployed. What makes this even more astonishing is that the Chinese...

US Forces Booted Out of Niger

2024 is the end of the ten year lease after expending $110 million to build and $30 million a year to maintain the base. The French forces were booted in October 2023. American troops are leaving now and the German troops will leave in September. The military regimes...

They Hate Our Freedom

They Hate Our Freedom Near the end of 2022,[1] the government finally released the notes from the 9/11 Commission’s interview of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from April 29, 2004. Would you believe it turns out the president admitted that his...

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